S11 E2: Clément "Kero" Renault, Meilisearch
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
4.6 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Clément "Kero" Renault wanted to be an architect when he was younger. During that time, he also learned about computers and built his first website - and he never stopped building. Funny story, he lost that first website cause it wasn't on Git. Outside of his professional life, he likes to draw, craft and to cook. He also enjoys video games, and mentioned Hidden Reign was his favorite game of all time, alongside the likes of Cyberpunk.
Seven years ago, Kero was in school, and he wanted to build a solid search experience, but not just a general search - one that indexed your data, and allowed you to have a "Google" just for your info. After winning a school hackathon, Kero and his mates wanted to take it to the next level.
This is the creation story of Meilisearch.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Kinsta. |
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| 1:32.3 | The tram is coming down the track towards a single human. You can pull the lever and send the tram down a different track, |
| 1:38.3 | killing five sentient robots instead. What do you do? Save the human. |
| 1:44.5 | Come on. |
| 1:45.1 | That's what us humans would do. |
| 1:46.6 | I asked an AI. |
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